The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-08-16
STREET NOTES.

The lawn party tonight.
City prices at tn lawn party 20.
night.
Waco cncampment, /. O.O.F. ho,d
meeting tonight. beginning AT $40
The members of Rescue Hook and
Ladder Company had q drill la.t
| night in full uniform.
The receipts of cotton Yesterday
was two bales. AMI the nriro fnr
which they sold, S % and SO re.
spectively.
The loss Ivy the last fire. which was
in and on some sms, buildings on
| First aud Jackson streets. il hr,ny
adjusted by Mr.. Afford. of Nav
Orleans.
The Farm er's Alliance thinks ns,
and works rapidly. 1t decided on a
Farmer Exchange, $500 OOO canitsl
and the application for u charter was
sent to Austin on Saturday. Col. W
l.. Prather drew the charter.
When YOU sec those stakes driven
into the ground on that great sahara.
the public plaza. do not mistake their
use to be for QUOT pitching. They
are to mark the site OF Grand nrW
city hall, TO cost $1,000, aud pretty
enough to make a Waco man wink
with his thumbs in the arm.ho,os of
his vest, wigg ing his iiugers.
The Bosqucvile camp.mectinr is
an annual fixed institution. dating
beck into the antiquities. lisa op.
u'ar institution, aud lsrge Numbers
OF people from Waco who attended
last Sunday was no exception. and
the five miles of road between the
city and the camp grounds was lively
all day with people coming and
going.
y great fence lie to he bull. 200 feet
long aud 220 feet wide, the length
shorter than the width, about the Site
OF the new city hall white it is being
built. 1t should not be Of boards. but
OF some material that the people can
see the work going on. a high board
fence, like that about the postOflice. 4, ,
what every free citizen rescnts. II
creates profanity, and there is enough
of that on the plaza anyhow.
Three times the pretty ladies' OF St
Paul Guild have appointed night
for lawn party, to be stopped hv
rainy weather. But they have nor
lost hcsrt. and tonight the lawn party
will come oil. II Will be IA beautiful
night, with the cool south wind blow
Ing, and the bright stars shining, aud
no lover of beauty and plrnsure
should fail to 90 TO that lawn party.
for IT VIII be the chetd u ivre OF all
previous Successes.
y very successful robbery was per.
petrated at the Cotton Belt depot
yesterday morning az the early hour
at wnich the train leaves for Corsi-
cana. llr. Chas : Morse who clerk
nj the supreme count, wife and child
took the sleeper for Corsicana. Mrs.
Morse was seated in the car on a seat
next the platform, while Mr.. Morse
was outside. While adjusting herself
III the seat au adroit thief clipped his
arm IN the car window and plltcrcd
the satchel from Mr.. Morsc's lap
without being perceived. The satchel
contained lady's gold wa'ch set
with diamonds god thlmblc and
two railroad tickets.
The east wind which blew ha'f of
saturday and all day Sunday blew a
snail army of law breakers into quod
and into his honor Mayor Tlbb',
court on Monday morning, some
twenty in all Complaints against
fifteen were confined but five ANS
wered TO the roll call, to.Wit: Miss
frankie Brown, immoral variations
$40; Miss Sa,lio Burns. temporary
inebrietv So; Pet Jones offensive con
duct So; Fanny E,us assault with
intent to commit battery, $40; Tom
Ellison fast driving 50. The mischief
is in All east pInd.
Yesterday morning in Justice Ma
X eig's court, while his honor wa,
holding his usual leyec, H man by the
name of Fred >mith WAS in the room,
charged with disturbing the peace.
Court rooms are not the most pleas
ant places in the world tor nice people !
and Justice Makeig, in his good ma
ture, gave Smith aud wife permission
I o sit in another room while "A trial |
was going on. The trial was finished |
and the case of Smith WAS called, hut |
he did not respond. He had abused |
the confidence of the Judge and had |
walked quietly away. Perhaps he
had grown tired Of waiting, but at all
events he was gone.
There is not moro popular drug |
house IN the city than that OF John Is
Willis ~ Co.. at the Old Hamlet stand.
Mr.. John Willis has host of friends
in Waco, aud has brought great ecIat
to the concern by his connection with
It. DR.. Moore, while comparatively
stranger when he came to Waco, has
made friends rapidly, and his
thorough knowledge OF the drug
business. and his splendid capacity. for
any line iu which he might enter in
5urcs success TO the firm, a more
stock of better drugs is not
10 be found in the state OF Texas, aud
he rapidly growing patronage OK
tended the firm otJohn Is. Wills X
20. Is butaiu.t recognition of phar-
naceutical SKIN aud a d.terminarion
10 please, taken IN CONNECTION with
A stock Of superior quality